Breakfast is booming at US restaurants. Is it also contributing to high egg prices?

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Bakeries feel impact of increasing ingredient prices

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The highly valued, highly coveted grade A large egg: You’ve probably noticed its ever-increasing price at the store, and maybe you’ve held off on baking that quiche for another day. But for some businesses like bakeries, it’s far more challenging to make sacrifices with essential ingredients.  “It’s a great life,” Jason Kakabaker, owner of Cakabakery, said. "I wake up to the smell of chocolate cake baking (laughs).” …

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Can suspending a cage-free egg law solve the soaring price problem? Nevada takes a crack at it.

By Josh Funk, Sejal Govindarao and Ty Oneil, The Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Back when egg prices remained securely under $2 a dozen in 2021, Nevada joined several other states concerned about animal welfare in requiring cage-free eggs. Now four years later, a dozen eggs costs an average of nearly $5 in the U.S. because of the lingering bird flu, so Nevada passed a law the governor signed Thursday that will allow the state to suspend that law t…

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Egg prices hit record highs and are expected go higher, straining consumers, restaurants

Nick Rodgers knows the pain of record-high egg prices as much as anyone.

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How eateries with breakfast menus are responding to high egg prices

It’s a chicken-and-egg problem: Restaurants are struggling with record-high U.S. egg prices, but their omelets, scrambles and huevos rancheros may be part of the problem. Breakfast is booming at U.S. eateries. First Watch, a restaurant chain that serves breakfast, brunch and lunch, nearly quadrupled its locations over the past decade to 570. Eggs Up Grill has 90 restaurants in nine southern states, up from 26 in 2018. Florida-based Another Broke…

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Egg prices are already climbing. Is the nation's surging demand for breakfast making them higher?

A bird flu outbreak that forced egg producers to slaughter their flocks is making supplies scarcer and pushing up prices - and a surging demand for breakfast may be adding to this.

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It's the chicken and egg problem: restaurants struggle with record egg prices in the United States, but their omelets, scrambled eggs and ranchers could be part of the problem.